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News Team | sounds magazine Annual sales of vinyl records will surpass $1bn (£820m) for the first time since the 1980s this year, according to a report published last week. Professional services firm Deloitte predicts that sales of LPs will [...Read More]

The National could have something to treasure on Friday – the American indie rockers are eyeing their first ever Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart. The band’s seventh album, Sleep Well Beast, is on track to claim the top [...Read More]

The family of Johnny Cash has posted a fierce response after a neo-Nazi was spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing the late artist’s name at the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. American singer-songwriter Roseanne Cash, his eldest daughter, posted a message on [...Read More]

In light of recent turmoil and heated conversation in American politics following a fatal riot in Charlottesville, Spotify has taken upon itself to remove several artists and songs from the platform that were deemed to be “hate music” by the [...Read More]

Kesha’s new album Rainbow has leaked online days before its official release. The Tik Tok hitmaker is set to debut the record on Friday (11Aug17), but on Wednesday (09Aug17) it appeared online. Kesha has not commented on the leak, but [...Read More]

(Reuters) – Bruce Springsteen is headed to Broadway for an eight-week solo theater run that he says will feature “just me, the guitar, the piano and the words and music.” “Springsteen on Broadway” will start Oct. 3 in a [...Read More]

Glen Campbell’s daughter Ashley and country stars Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton are leading the tributes to the music icon following his death on Tuesday (08Aug17). The Rhinestone Cowboy hitmaker, who had been battling Alzheimer’s disease since 2011, was 81. [...Read More]

Some post truth music comes from the prog frontman Steven Wilson with his fifth album ‘To The Bone’ released on 18th August. With topics ranging from refugees, terrorists and religious fundamentalists, it’s not your normal album. It’s already garnered some [...Read More]

It’s not often that a bands first EP is worth more than a play or two, but that’s not the case with Drömstad, a London-based duo with a sound reminiscent of Mazzy Star. So on August 11th go out a [...Read More]

The KLF have announced a mysterious new live event set to take place next month, coinciding with the release of a new book. The duo will reunite under their original Justified Ancients of Mu Mu moniker for the “three-day situation”, [...Read More]

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There’s a single grain of optimism persistently doing the rounds as we all continue to sift through the debris of 2016: Trump in the White House means the return of meaningful Punk Rock. In earlier articles I have bemoaned the [...Read More]

Annie Ko and Toby Hwang make up South Korean duo, Love X Stereo. They have been building a strong reputation in South Korea, as well as over in the US, and recently came over to the UK for the first [...Read More]

This month we’ve got some absolute crackers for you. First off, we revisited Manchester punk scene’s favourite haunt for an evening of face shredding skate punk with Guildford’s Darko, and out-of-country label-mates, Straightline. We were at Anarchistic Undertones’s ShredFest, as [...Read More]

I know I am not alone in feeling a creeping sense of doom brought on by the times we find ourselves living (hopefully) through. It is hard to define exactly, like the early pre-symptom stages of a cold, a general [...Read More]

It was billed as ‘The End’; the final show of the final tour, but it was so much more. A fifty-year-old band playing a gig in Birmingham would rarely be of much significance, but then again Black Sabbath were not [...Read More]

Last month we bid a fond farewell to Mr Charles Edward Anderson (that’s Chuck Berry to you and me) who was finally granted his one-way ticket to Valhalla at the grand old age of 90. Although rock ‘n’ roll might [...Read More]